Our Travels
New Orlean’s City Park is just two blocks from our Airbnb. Here are some of the cool things we saw. This post will be updated as the month goes on.
City Park has many old Live Oak trees, some more that 600 years old.
We walked along Bayou Metairie.
The Peristyle was interesting. We saw someone taking photographs here
Some other areas of the Park
More info on City Park:
Website
City Park (New Orleans) – Wikipedia
We drove over for lunch before a grocery run. This was a cool hole in the wall place with mostly locals eating. Part of our goal for slow travel is to avoid chain dining and meet local people. This supports local businesses and helps us to connect with new people.
It was funny to notice that most of the early diners where senior citizens…..and then we realize that WE ARE SENIOR CITIZENS. Had to let that sink in.
Mike had a shrimp po-boy while Jana had the fried shrimp plate. Both were excellent. We were too stuffed to try dessert, but Mike has his eye on “Grandmothers Carrot Cake”.
Kenner Seafood
3140 Loyola Drive
Kenner, LA 70065
A short walk through City Park for breakfast. We each got 3 beignets (next time we can share one order). Jana got an iced coffee while Mike got a hot chocolate (which he soon switched out for a cold root beer). This location in City Park was very spacious with indoor and outdoor patio seating. The beignets were awesome as usual.
We felt very safe. It seemed like a large portion of the New Orleans police force were taking a coffee break while we were there.
Cafe du Monde – City Park
56 Dreyfous Dr.
New Orleans, LA 70124